I'm starting to feel like Fedi has become just another place for people to talk online. Which is to say, we talk at each other instead of to each other. Lots of politics, announcements, and complaining. I guess that happened when we finally achieved critical mass.
It would be interesting if MS "Recall" was finally the straw that breaks the camel's back. That mainstream users would finally rebel against continuing to use Windows. But in reality, I don't think anything can reach the average Windows PS user. They won't even be aware of it, let alone be moved to care. And the enterprise customers will probably just ask for, and get, a version that doesn't include Recall.
if you install #Debian with #XFCE, you get the xfce4-goodies package, which means you get xfburn. LOL, CD burning. I don't even have an optical drive in this machine.
I think maybe #Debian 12 with #XFCE is literally perfect for me. And that's without doing anything in terminals, only clicking around in GUI settings. I didn't even have to install any additional packages.
@tulpa Debian 12 with Cinnamon is what I'm currently doing. Cool thing about Debian is that it's easy to try different desktop environments by choosing at the login screen.
@apgarcia I had a problem doing that recently. I had MATE and XFCE installed at the same time, and the MATE components being present seemed to make trouble for XFCE. Specifically, I had theme and sound issues.
The valuable computer experiences are the ones where you learn something. The really valuable ones are where you learn something about yourself instead of the computer. Like, you don't actually like a feature that you thought you did.
@tulpa That's a common trend in an industry driven by popularity contests and fashion.
It wasn't like that historically, though – many composers created their greatest works near the end of their careers, when they had the most experience and the richest toolboxes at their disposal (and when they were secure enough to try controversial things without risking their careers).